How to do you send mass email to members?

Hi!

Please help me how I can send a single email to all users who have joined the site?

Thanks,
Sam 

From my understanding, the mass email system built into Dolphin works on a subscription basis.  Each member has to subscribe to the newsletter.  I don't know your location but remember in the US there is the Can Spam Act which states that you must provide a way for members to unsubscribe to emails.  You can use an sql query to automatically subscribe all members to your newsletter.  However, remember that you want to limit the number of messages; you don't want to irritate your members and anyone wanting off the list should not be forced to stay on the list or you risk driving away your members.

If the idea is to present announcements to your members, there are several modules in the market that will handle this through your website; the announcements are show on their profile or account pages.

They don't need to have "subscribed" If the member has opted to receive site notifications (in their profile), they will get the mass mail you send from the "Mass Mailer"  (/administration/notifies.php). The emails in the subscriptions will also get this, but even unregistered emails can get added to this list...

Site notifications and the newsletter (mass mailer) or two different things.  So, what do you use to email a site notification you write/create to all members since it is not the mass mailer which is the newsletter which requires members to register.

crack_foo is correct. You can mass mail all your members (if they opted to receive site notifications) through the mass mailer. Just queue up a message in the mass mailer and put a check by "Send to members". There is a blue "i" beside the word members what will show you how many users will receive it if you hover over it with your mouse.

Anyone have an issue where there are messages left in the queue? Mass mailer seems to send 100 at a time. Is there any way to increase the number?

I know this thread has actually been here awhile and there have been many upgrades and changes to acknowledge but it still doesn't answer the basic question as I see it and further more I have looked and looked and there is no blue "I" in anywhere. But further this is suppose to be a community script and joined for comradery not for individual's so when they join they should automatically be in a contact situation by an administration person. 

Is there a way to send a test email using the Mass Mailer? I'm seeing some strange stuff in the preview and need to fix my template in order to have a nice looking outbound email to all members. I'm using Advanced Email templates and the Mass Mailer together.

I would suggest to create 'Test' membership, assign this membership to 'test' profiles, then queue mail to profiles with 'Test' membership only.

Hi Alex, OK, that seems to be an OK way to send a test email - a little strange but it works. As I mentioned in an email - we are seeing delays of 30-90 minutes between submitting the queue in Mass Mailer and the email arriving at its destination, based on time stamps, etc. Where would you suggest we look, in order to make sure all the settings are proper and correct? Are there MX or cron settings that have an effect on the delay of the send?

Thank you, CHOPS

Emails are sent every 10 minutes by 20 at one time.

You can configure count:

Admin Panel > Tools > Mass-mailer > Settings

You can change time:

`sys_cron_jobs` table, `notifies` row, `time` column

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